{"id":852147,"date":"2026-09-18T13:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852147\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:28:14","slug":"saddiq-bey-pelicans-agree-on-a-3-year-55-5-million-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852147\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddiq Bey, Pelicans agree on a 3-year, $55.5 million contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS \u2014 Saddiq Bey has agreed to a three-year contract extension with the New Orleans Pelicans that will pay the veteran power forward $55.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Bey&#8217;s agents with Excel Sports Management announced the extension, which was first reported by ESPN on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Bey averaged 17.7 points and 5.6 rebounds last season, his first in New Orleans and also his first season since missing all of the 2024-25 campaign with a torn ligament in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>Drafted 19th overall out of Villanova in 2020, Bey spent most of his first three seasons with Detroit before being traded to Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>He has averaged 14.8 points and 5.3 rebounds in about 30.4 minutes per game for his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS \u2014 Saddiq Bey has agreed to a three-year contract extension with the New Orleans Pelicans that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,6932,99,9815],"class_list":["post-852147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-sports","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}